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Verb to Dress in French(s')habiller

The French verb habiller can be conjugated as a normal one but most of the time you will find its reflexive form (s'habiller = to get dressed /to clothe). It can be used in a concrete or figurative context.

Some examples of the use of the French verb habiller:

De nos jours, les jeunes hommes mettent plus de temps à s'habiller et à se pomponner que les jeunes femmes.In today's society, it takes longer for young men to get dressed and dolled up than young girls.

Dépêche-toi de t'habiller, on va être en retard à l'entraînement !Put some clothes on quickly, we are going to be late for training!

Il la déshabille du regard de façon peu discrète !He's undressing her with his eyes in a very indiscreet manner!

Elle habillait ses yeux de mascara tous les soirs avant de sortir. She adorned her eyes with mascara every night before going out.

Idioms using the French verb habiller:

Déshabiller du regard: to undress someone with one's eyes L'habit ne fait pas le moine: One cannot judge a book by its coverDéshabiller Paul pour habiller Jean: to take sthg from a person to give it to another (figurative; to solve a problem by creating another one); to rob Peter to pay Paul.

English translation

June 2008. A Jewish adolescent assaulted by a group of youths in the capital.

The adolescent was walking to his place of worship when tens of youths of an average similar age attacked him.

He was dressed normally and was simply wearing the traditional Hebrew headgear.

Severely wounded, the Doctors assisted him medically in order to place him into a deep sleep.

While these kinds of racist actions have substantially decreased in France, the religious community in question highlighted, however, that they have been affected by this kind of behaviour from outsiders for about eight years.

Apparently, the adolescent exchanged swear words with people of his age group last year and although the Police did not dismiss the hypothesis of anti-Jewish crime, they are carrying on their investigations to be check if this is the case.